Print hitching its fortunes to the web
Radio isn’t the only medium to focus on the year 2020. Magazines are also hoping that’s the year they start earning serious money on...
Consumers group demands hearing on XM/Sirius
It would seem that the “highly confidential document” may fall short of a smoking gun with fingerprints, but it obviously contains highly sensitive information and seems to have been discovered on the scene of the alleged crime.
Taking stock at Cumulus
With its going-private transaction called off, Cumulus Media’s board of directors has now approved awards of restricted common stock as an incentive to key...
Buddy, can you spare $120 million?
As it waits…and waits…and waits for the FCC to act on its application to merge with Sirius, XM Satellite Radio has had to come...
BCFM is gone; Long live MFM
As new media ventures become a bigger part of the businesses of broadcast and cable companies, the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association (BCFM) is...
Radio’s Mojo
This has been bothering me for quite some time: When did Radio People become so wimpy and insecure? Who did we leave in charge of our Mojo, and where did he hide it?
CBS interest in CNET began over a year ago
An SEC filing by CBS Corporation reveals that first contact between CBS officials and CNET officials about “potential strategic business opportunities” was in April...
FCC’s personal main studio non-history
According to Jerald N. Fritz, the citizens of the United States might have a little more money in their pockets if the FCC had...
Weather makes a dent in campaign coverage
Technically, we suppose, the earthquake which rocked China cannot be considered a weather event, but it combined with the Myanmar cyclone and numerous lesser...
English-promoting group fears for Rush
A lobbying group that has been trying to make English the official US language since 1986 thinks that the FCC’s initiative to promote localism...
DCCC attacks, RNCC regroups
The political committee of House Democrats is going directly after incumbents from across the aisle, an ability made possible in part by their vastly...
Emmis would prefer to buy preferred (or common)
The board of directors at Emmis Communications has expanded the company’s stock buyback program to cover preferred stock as well as common. The buyback...
Clear Channel has had enough
Randy Michaels’ poaching of top staffers from his former employer for Tribune Company has finally resulted in Clear Channel going to court to sue...
Down month all around
The monthly report for April from Journal Communications shows declines across the board – print, radio and television. Publishing led the retreat, with revenues...
Small market frustration with Arbitron
It would appear to those of us in Condensed Markets that Arbitron couldn't care less about MRC accreditation for PPM. On April 3, 2008 I...